Getting back to Boston

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Location:

Fort Smith,AR,USA

Member Since:

Jan 01, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

Dec. 5, 2009 -- St. Jude Memphis Marathon, 3:31:56. Boston qualifier for 2011. Two-time Boston finisher. 19 marathons so far in 10 states, Canada, Germany, England and Sweden. Next up: London (4/25/17)

5K -- 21:57; 10K -- 45:54; 20K-- 1:42:39, Half -- 1:39:30. All subject to improvement. Maybe. Or maybe not.

Short-Term Running Goals:

Short-term: Just get my motivation back and go from there

Long-Term Running Goals:

A lot of marathons, and other distances, slowly.

Personal:

Physician assistant/hospitalist, divorced since December 2010, one child (son). Ran high school track, took 10 years off, ran a 15K on my 25th birthday, took off next 21 years.
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Sun, Mar 27, 2011
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
21.910.000.000.0021.91

Last LR is in the books. Went out conservative, worked my way down to 8:47 pace -- and stayed there. Average remained right there for probably 14 miles, until the cellphone ran out of juice and powered off right after the 20-mile update. But since I know I was right by the monastery at 20, I could map the rest on mapmyrun: 1.91 miles. So there's my 21.91. Having to estimate my total time as well, since the phone shut down, but I'm assuming that at worst I maintained the 8:47 average, maybe even a bit of a closing kick in those last two miles. So 21.9 times 527 seconds per mile comes out to approximately 3:12. I'm happy, and I'm ready to go BOTT in Boston. The hard work is done. Taper down, sharpen up and hammer it.

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Comments
From I Just Run on Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 16:15:24 from 67.79.11.242

Good running Spiderpig,

I see you're going to Boston...that's cool. I'm going to OKC on May 1st to try and qualify for Boston 2012. I'm 50 so my qualifying time (for this year only) is 3:35:59. I've been running less than a year so to do that would be cool. I assume this will be your first Boston, good luck and go BOTT in Boston...! (not sure what that is..?)

I Just Run

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